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When the four Foreign Ministers filed into the conference room for their
44th, and final, session at 4 p.m., everything had been said that could be
said. Molotov plodded over the familiar ground, trying to explain Russia's
refusal to join the U.S. in a 40-year demilitarization treaty on Germany.
Bevin, in the chair, looked at Marshall. "Any comment?" he asked.
"No comment," said Marshall. Molotov again summed up Russia's demands
for all property seized by the Germans in Austria. "Any comment?" asked
Bevin. "No comment," said Marshall.*